The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
Notes and Opinions,

nigh water, ana tne HOOd Is ABOUT as
damaging as the city has had.
THE Connecticut senate has declared
in favor of protective tariff, with one
democrat voting with the majority.
LIKE the human frame, the interstate
commerce law is fearfully and won
derfully made. - Philadelphia North
American.
THE plurality of the republicans in
Michigan is Unexpectedly large, APP
proximating thirty thousand on their
state ticket.
THE Il. Y. has decided that the
smart railroad man "must 60" This
cruel fiat will knock the smart railroad
man higher than kite.
THE most sensible advice that can be
given to folks in this part of the globe
just now Isl Don't be in hurry to cast
off your winter flannels.
IT is significant fact that in all the
arrests for the extensive train robber-
les on the Pennsylvania road no en-
gineer or fireman was implicated.
THERE is no lack of candidates for
United States senator in the Florida
legislature. On Thursday the vote was
distributed among thirty-two men.
BY vote of more than two to one
the New York East Methodist Confer
ence refused to indorse the prohibition
party movement after long and ear
nest discussion.
IT has been shown recently that a
large proportion of the naval and other
government employees are aliens-in
the employ of the nation, yet not citi-
zens.-TOledo Blade.
AWAY down in Texas, according to
the San Antonio Erpress, "the nut.
terings against the free-trade theorists
grow louder and longer and more wide.
spread with each succeeding day.
In Emporia, Kan, 541 women regis
tered and 39S voted. And, singular
to relate, large proportion of these
voted against the candidate of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
THE tory governments coercion
measure, although it has passed sec
ond reading in the house of commons
has still many long stages to traverse
before it can be put into active opera
ton.
GIVE the interstate railroad commits
sion time enough and it will interpre
that law so that no one else will under
stand it, and we doubt very much il
even the commissioners will.-Boston
Record.
REPORTS have been circulated tina
President Cleveland neither wishes
nor will accept denomination, blu
Colonel Lamont says the President hal
not committed himself on the subject
The mugwumps breathe easier.
THE trainers of the interstate com
merce law seem to have forgotten thu
axiom that the whole is equal to thu
sum of the parts. But that is the re
suit of trying to equalize long ant
short-hauls. -Sprinqfeld Union.
If the interstate commerce law il
going to prevent the Californians iron
getting their wool to Boston at payin!
rates, the farmers of New England hat
better kill off their big dogs at ono
and go to raising sheep.-EGchange.
A TRUSTWORTHY authority says tina
at least sos 900 900 trees are now grow
ing in this country where none wer
seen before the beginning of the move
ment known as Arbor or tree-plantinl
day, originating about fifteen years ago
TIE Albany Evening Journal is o
the opinion that {" the time will neve
come when the people will be who'll
satisfied with the operations of tn
interstate commerce act, which carrie
the theory of paternalism in govern
ment to the extreme"
AMONG the best laws enacted at III
last session of congress was the allie
land act. 1t was designed to proven
the purchase by foreigners, whether a
/ syndicates or in severalty, of vas
tracts of American soil to the exclusio
of small land-holdings.
THERE is a vast amount of talk abor
possible antagonisms between M
Blaine and Senator Sherman, but it a
comes from democrats, whose teeth al
, chattering with terror lest either {
, these gentlemen be nominated for pres
dent.-Philadelphia Press.
SOME of the k-and-thin partisan
of the interstate law are taking it muc
to heart that the railroads show no di
= position to make sacrifices to ensul
the benefits which the advocates of I'll
> law had predicted would result from i
= operations. We assume that corpOr
e tions are no less selfish than individual